402. Value of imports and exports from Canada of wheat, flour and other breadstuffs, 1868-1893 : *Amount entered for consumption only, as regards New Brunswick. arated from other breadstuffs. The value of produce of Canada only. +Not sep 403. Quantities of total imports into and exports from Canada of wheat, flour and other breadstuffs, 1868-1893: : 1868+. 1869+. 1870+. 1871+. 1872. 1873. 1874. 1875.. 1878. 1879. 1880. 10,057 3,545,598 14,577,964 6,093 1,847,722 9,279,975 14,644 3,701,065 19,992,520 23,954 1,737,899 19,973,070 102,243 1,989,917 12,847,420 2,284,702 383,344 4,201,422 4,055,872| 2,809,208, 375,219 4,685,303 4,630,069 3,557,101 382,177 5,467,986 6,663,877 1,748,977 306,387 3,280,912 4,832,999 2,993,129 453,158 5,258,919 5,606,438 6,405,693 483,713 8,824,258 4,346,923 6,949,595 1,823,111 13,458,004 12,011,059 554,341 14,782,764 3,748,270 2,680,568 2,805,325 13,162,576 7,053,544 308,981 8,598,449 5,419,054 2,080,090 5,967,693 8,362,762 1876. 9,248,390 419,936 11,348,070 10,168,176 2,047,040 5,119,295 14,752,213 1877.. 3,559,095 276,439 4,941,290 6,587,180 4,083,174 5,968,688. 8,817,361 8,509,243 479,245 10,905,468 7,543,342 3,987,600 5,380,529 38,200,102 9,767,555 580,776 12,671,435 5,393,212 5,429,359 5,936,158. 25,774,391 12,169,493 561,484 14,976,913 7,241,379 4,547,942 9,622,605 32,458,482 9,092,279 501,455 11,599,554 8,800,579 5,257,604 6,433,533 508,120 8,974,133 11,588,446 2,229,900 10,733,535 526,340 13,365,255 8,817,216 819,605 3,021,188 284,504 4,443,708 7,730,262 3,806.474 4,736,319 20,354,942 5,423,805 161,054 6,229,075 9,067,395 2,007,674 5,619,799 22,127,128 5,705,874 415,397 7,782,859 8,554,302 2,667,401 7,851,134 29,624,279 9,127,045 531,152 11,782,805 9,456,964 3,373,764 6,415,208 23,289,317 7,299,694 355,883 9,079,109 9,370,158 1,203,195 2,816,353 12,386,668 1,785,349 156,360 2,428,605 9,948,217 4,386,259 2,775,403. 26,493,108 2,580,801 149,959 3,255,616 9,975,911 6,624,746 4,313,537 34,520,737 4,539,363 313,280 5,949,123 4,892,334 3,554,255 3,884,737 22,938,201 13,659,020 399,118 15,455,051 5,202,768 2,050,656 14,712,513 44,091,571 1881.. 1882. 1883. 1884. 1885. 1886. 1887. 1888. 1889. 1890.. 1891. 1892. 1893. 8,154,302 20,893,576 9,235,442 17,096,649 4,704,899 17,661,368 13,008,029 431,116 14,948,051 2,044,235 2,839,209 11,902,648 62,126,516 Amount entered for consumption only as regards New Brunswick. Not separated from other grain. Rye included. The produce of Canada only. 404. During the week ended 1st October, 1887, the price of wheat in London, was the lowest touched for 125 years, viz., 28s. 5d. per quarter, or 86 cents per bushel, but, low as this point was, a still deeper one was reached in the week ended 31st December, 1892, when the average price was 25s. 8d. per quarter, or 78 cents per bushel. The lowest average, however, for a whole year was in 1893, viz., 80 cents per bushel; the next lowest average having been in 1892, viz., 92 cents per bushel. The visible supply of wheat in the United States and Canada on Ist January, 1893, was 116,362,000 bushels, being the largest on record, and 38,000,000 bushels more than on the same date in 1892. On 1st January, 1894, the visible supply of wheat in the United States and Canada was 110,263,000 bushels. In May, 1894, La Plata wheat sold in London at 64 cents to 66 cents, and No. I Northern in Minneapolis at 62 cents. In Chicago wheat touched 53 cents. The chief cause appears to be the increasing acreage of wheat sown in Argentine and the great facilities that country enjoys for trade with the United Kingdom. 405. The steady fall in price of late years is shown in the following table, which gives the average price of wheat in London and the average export price in New York in each year since 1871.: 406. The census returns show the following results respecting cereals (other than wheat), roots, hay and corn : 407. Taking these articles with wheat, and putting them into tons, we find that the total number of tons reported as the product of the farms of Canada in 1890 was 15,092,227 tons, against 11,576,317 tons in 1880, an increase of 304 per cent. While however, there has been this increase in the quantity raised, there has been a decrease of about II per cent in the aggregate average price. During the same period there has been a decrease in the number of farmers, equal to a little over per cent. In 1891 there were 649,506 farmers to divide among them 15,092,227 tons, and in 1881 there were 656,712 farmers to divide among them 11,576,317 tons. The average for 1891 was 23 tons, and for 1881 18 tons. Thus there was an increase of 5 tons per farmer in the quantity. The total tons, multiplied by the aggregate average price, $18.18 and $20.41, would yield $279,426,686 for 1891 and $236,272,629 for that of 1881. The average farmer, therefore, would receive in 1891, $430 from his crop of the articles enumerated, against $360 in 1881. Of course, there would be the larger amount of labour required for the planting and handling of the larger number of tons, but this would be offset to a considerable extent by the increased substitution of machinery for human labour. Under any circumstances, a substantial gain in the ten years would remain to the farmer in compensation for the toils of the year. |